1. REFERENCE
    9 min read

    So you want Database Versioning?

    Tim Sehn|

    Here at DoltHub, we've had a lot of success with our "So you want..." series of blog posts helping people find Dolt when they are looking for it. Dolt is a lot of things. Dolt is a version controlled database, a Git database, Git for data, data…

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  1. SQL
    7 min read

    TPC-C Update 2024

    Dolt reached production quality as a relational database about a year ago. We started more seriously testing Dolt against TPC-C beforehand in anticipation of more contentious transactional workloads. Dolt aims to be around 2-3x compared to MySQL on...

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  2. REFERENCE
    5 min read

    Dolt's Commit Graph

    A deep dive into the Dolt commit graph, the data structure that powers the version control capability of Dolt.

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  3. REFERENCE
    11 min read

    Prolly Trees

    A deep dive into the Probabilistic B-tree or Prolly Tree data structure including examples. Prolly Trees are used to create version controlled databases.

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  4. REFERENCE
    5 min read

    Dolt's Storage Engine

    A detailed deep dive into Dolt's storage engine. Dolt's storage engine provides database version control at scale using Prolly Tress and a commit graph.

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  5. INTEGRATION
    21 min read

    ASP.NET Core + Dolt

    This post shows how to build an ASP.NET Core web application using Razor Pages and Entity Framework Core with Dolt as the database, including how to access Dolt specific versioning features such as branching, commit logs, and data diffs.

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  6. SQL
    5 min read

    100% Correctness

    Dolt is a SQL database with Git-like versioning features intended to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL. In order to be a drop-in replacement, Dolt needs to match MySQL behavior as closely as possible. We chose sqllogictests , a collection of ...

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  7. GOLANG
    2 min read

    Adding Color to Terminal Output in Go

    Learn how to add color to your terminal output in Go.

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  8. FEATURE RELEASE
    10 min read

    Shallow Clone Support

    Shallow Clones allow users to clone just the history they need

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  9. 2 min read

    Announcing Dolt PGO Builds

    In a recent blog post Zach demonstrated that building Dolt using Golang's Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO) improved benchmarking performance by 5%. Today we're excited to announce that Dolt releases, starting with v1.32.4 , are now buil...

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  10. SQL
    5 min read

    Automatic Statistic Updates

    Dolt is close to 100% MySQL compatible and only 2x slower than MySQL. Few customers find bugs that we cannot fix in under 24 hours, and the difference between a 10ms query in Dolt that is 5ms in MySQL is usually OK. But on rare occasions we still…

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  11. TECHNICALDOLTGRES
    8 min read

    Adding Types to DoltgreSQL

    In November 2023 , we officially started development on DoltgreSQL , which is a version of Dolt built to be a drop-in replacement for PostgreSQL. For those that may not know, Dolt is the world's first database that is built, from the grou...

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  12. HOSTEDFEATURE RELEASE
    2 min read

    Upgrading Instances on Hosted Dolt

    Hosted Dolt now supports more advanced replication workflows from the web UI, such as resizing your deployment, upgrading to a larger instance, and restarting a stopped deployment.

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  13. REFERENCE
    18 min read

    Getting Started: Rails and Dolt

    A detailed guide, complete with sample code, on how to get started writing a version controlled Rails app using a Dolt database.

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  14. 8 min read

    Understanding Tags in Go

    In Go, tags allow developers to attach metadata to struct fields. These tags can drive features and behaviors in various libraries and tools which access the tags via reflection. This article provides an overview of tags in Go, including their synt...

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  15. 16 min read

    Testcontainers for Go with Dolt

    Recently, a customer reached out to our team asking for a blog using Dolt with Testcontainers , "an open source framework for providing throwaway, lightweight instances of databases, message brokers, web browsers, or just about anything that c...

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  16. GOLANG
    14 min read

    Testing out Profile-Guided Optimization on Dolt's SQL Benchmarks

    In this blog we try out Go's new profile-guided build optimizations on Dolt's SQL benchmarks and share the results

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  17. REFERENCE
    21 min read

    Getting Started: Django and Dolt

    A detailed guide, complete with sample code, on how to get started writing a version controlled Django app using a Dolt database.

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  18. SQL
    3 min read

    Improvements to SQL Function Support

    Dolt is a versioned database that has a mix of Git and MySQL features. One of our goals is to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL. As a result, we need to support all the functions MySQL does; these are things like SIN() , CONCAT() , CURRENT_T...

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  19. 11 min read

    MySQL Views: How and why with examples

    In this tutorial, learn how to define views in MySQL and what they're good for, with examples

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  20. USE CASEREFERENCE
    5 min read

    Dolt + Metabase

    A customer wanted to use Metabase to visualize Dolt databases. Dolt provides powerful versioning features to Metabase charts and dashboards. Dolt "just works" with Metabase using the MySQL connector so it's really easy to get started. T...

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